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Most current file systems have methods of administering permissions or access rights to specific users and groups of users. These systems control the ability of the users to view or make changes to the contents of the filesystem.

I have a 4 node failover Hyper-V cluster on Windows Server 2012 R2. The VM storage resides on 2 SMB 3.0 stand alone and independent servers (I intend to create a Scale-Out FS as soon as I can free up ...

It seems that there is a Linux user (on an Ubuntu 12.04.4 server) who is unable to access a shared directory, even though that user belongs to the group which owns the directory. Here is an example ...

I've spent the past few days trying to set up a Git Remote on my server so I can push changes to my web-server to it. The problem is that I'm getting the following errors while doing it:
$ git push ...

When giving users permissions to specific folders, it applies those permissions to every single file and folder. I do want this but it takes a while for these permissions to be applied to every single ...

I've set up a SFTP server using OpenSSH, everything works fine and the users I created can connect.
After authentication, the users find themselves directly inside /chroot, a directory they are not ...

Currently I'm having an issue with a piece of software that makes use of specific files (which are basically xml), sometimes stored on a file share and sometimes stored locally.
Every so often one of ...

I am currently getting a locally hosted website up and running, but have encountered problems in accessing it from the host computer and other computers, as well. I have already created exceptions in ...

If I have a folder owned by root:www-data with rwxr-s--- permissions and set ACLs so that user john can modify files, the permissions of the folder are changed to rwxrws---+. Even though I assumed the ...

on /var/log/nginx/ I have access and error logs. Some are .log errors and others have .gz
I think I messed up with the permissions. Some files are created by root/root, other files are created using ...

hopefully someone can help me out here (I've searched, but have come up empty so far).
My client PC (Win7) is a member of a large domain. I have a separate workgroup of 4 computers, one of which is ...

we have users authentication driven by ldap and home directories shared on nfs server mounted by autofs. We recently installed Ubuntu 15.04 on three new machines and added them to our infrastructure ...

I have a domain running on a virtual windows server 2012 R2. Another virtual servers hosts our file server. To that end I need a shared folder accessible by all domain users. No problem there. However ...

I created a special user who should never be able to CD into several system directories like program files, Windows directory, etc.
Whilte I can use icacls to setup the permissions on most of them, I ...

When attempting to install software (from network storage) on a domain joined computer two prompts show up asking for user credential. One is asking for Administrator account to install software and ...

I need to automate the creation several security groups, then create and apply a GPO that includes OU / Security group specific file permissions and auditing.
I have the OU and group creation done. ...

We've recently started going through shares replacing named permissions with AD groups (i.e. so that when updating permissions we don't need to worry about the time taken or risks involved in updating ...

I recently moved to open litespeed from apache and i can no longer create files.
When i do a file_put_contents i get permission errors.
lsphp and litespeed both run under user nobody.
Doing a chmod ...

I am scripting a backup job in which a remote computer connects to an ESXi 5 host and does SCP to copy files to another datastore on that host.
As a precaution (since every script that can go wrong ...